Molecular colony diagnostics: detection and quantitation of viral nucleic acids by in-gel PCR.

Abstract:

:When PCR is carried out in a polyacrylamide gel, each target molecule forms a molecular colony that comprises many copies of the original template. By counting the number of colonies, one can directly determine the target titer, with 100% of the DNA molecules and approximately 15% of the RNA molecules being detected. Furthermore, because of the spatial separation of the products in the gel, no interference is observedfrom another simultaneously amplified target even if it is present at a 106 higher amount orfrom human nucleic acids that outweigh the target by up to a factor of 1,012, which is often true of clinical samples. All these features provide for an accurate and reliable assay of viruses even at very low amounts, that is, in cases most important to diagnostics.

journal_name

Biotechniques

journal_title

BioTechniques

authors

Chetverina HV,Samatov TR,Ugarov VI,Chetverin AB

doi

10.2144/02331md03

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-07-01 00:00:00

pages

150-2, 154, 156

issue

1

eissn

0736-6205

issn

1940-9818

journal_volume

33

pub_type

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